Black Crusade Reboot Discussion Thread!

[JennyDK]

Damn it. I would so much rather play a Sister of Battle, but not corrupted!

[Guroda]

Well ero did say we can make enemies. Perhaps your heretek has a sister of battle rival?

[JennyDK]

If I was an enemy I would be killed, wouldn't I?

[Guroda]

Not necessarily. Tech priests are capable fighters and have their own army. Your heretek would use machines against the physical might of the sisters.

[JennyDK]

The sisters of silence are pretty cool too!

[WritesNaughtyStories]

But an Adepta Sororita, no matter what, would attack us. They're straighter edge than the Grey Knights. Problem with 40K is there is no middle ground. The Imperium are absolutists. What's not them is their enemy. Although recent editions are softening that a bit, the Sisters just ain't going to cohabitate with Chaos

[Guroda]

Well I thought she meant just wanting to play a sister in general. If not corrupted perhaps an alliance of the empire to further drive the black crusade? Give us alot more story?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

There's no one I can think of that the Sisters would ally with besides the Inquisition and a few purer SM Chapters

[JennyDK]

Sounds about right to me. Maybe there could be a "good guy" campaign some other time.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I'd rather run 7th Sea but there's a ton of stuff I'll have to end. But I can get you a Sororitas style character there pretty easily.

Edited June 12, 2020 by WritesNaughtyStories

[JennyDK]

I have put 4 new images in my "character image" folder - do you guys think one of the others would be more interesting and/or fitting?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Although Eros seems to have left us for good, I still really want to play this. Anyone game for faking our way through the Eye of Terror?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I'm trying to adopt this club, is there any interest in reviving it?

[Balthier]

I just don't have the time to commit to it, or much or anything currently for that matter. So a negative for me unfortunately.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

One of the things I'd like to entertain, should I be allowed to adopt this club, is a streamlined resolution system. Would anyone object to doing a way with the highly granular FFG system in favor of something catered to play by post, resolve it yourself plmechanics?

[Ceberskie]

I'd be down. Love the setting and the RP seems like it was going well. It'd probably need a fresh start though...

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I suspect we all will. Are we good with paring back the rules? I'm kind of leaning towards adapting something like 1d10+stat with results like:

<7 failure, succeed at cost

7-8 succeed

9-10 succeed with style/bonus effect

11+ crush it

Stats will probably end up kind of ripped off Apocalypse World and rank 0-3

Fight (Wich will double as dodge)

Shoot

Psi

Personality (leadership/charisma)

With 6 points to spend.

[Ceberskie]

I never played the first time so idk the mechanics I'd be new. They seem interesting though.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

I'm glad you think it sounds like a workable idea.

Do you know the actual RPG this game is based on? It's not a problem at all if you don't. Any idea what kind of character you'll want to play?

[Ceberskie]

I do not. I've played the Inquisition modules of warhammer roleplay but that's my only experience with 40k ttrpgs. And I would want to know more about the setting to give you specifics but I was thinking about being a Chaos Sorcerer.

Edited July 1 by Ceberskie

[WritesNaughtyStories]

The original game focuses on Chaos Warbands in the 40K universe, Cultists, criminals, heretics, Chaos Space Marines, unsanctioned psykers and sorcerers are all welcome.

In the original reboot I played a Night Lord Captain who became a sorcerer. Tzeentch (or maybe the sorcerer who he was studying under) turned him into a woman. All we have is heresy!

 

One of the things I want to say to everyone is that by stripping away the heavy mechanics of the Fantasy Flight games, I want to empower everyone to fail interestingly. Lose a fight but get taken captive. Don't die unless you want to but we're here to create a cool story and some rough, shitty failures are rich fertilizer for cool things to grow out of.

I would like whoever plays to find reasons to stay with the warband - lust, affection, greed, they give you cool people to kill. That way if someone loses a fight and The Dark Angels drag them off to transport them to The Rock, we can bushwhack them in the Warp and board their corvette while they try to seduce the Inquisitor.

[Ceberskie]

Yep and that sounds cool! Is this warbabd black legion? Or nightlords?

[WritesNaughtyStories]

It can be a mishmash - Chaos doesn't care about who you were, only what you can do for them.

One of my favorite Black Crusade characters was from an in-person game. He was a Dark Angels Devastator who was not aligned to Chaos. He was really just a mercenary who'd lost faith in the Imperium.

Edited July 1 by WritesNaughtyStories

[Ceberskie]

That would be a hard sell lore wise....but in this case fuck it lol.

[WritesNaughtyStories]

Why? The Fallen are running all over the damn place, just no one knows...